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Join us in Celebrating Highlands’ 150th Anniversary for the 2025 Season

We are Open May 22 through November 23, 2025 • Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 1-4pm

A talk by archivist emeritus Ran Shaffner about George Masa's life and works, with special focus on nearly 100 photographs he took in and around Highlands, N.C., in 1929, now on display at the Highlands Historical Society. Filmed by Kevin FitzPatrick, All Species Photography.